kcDigitalArts

two exhibitions worth going to see this summer at the TATE MODERN, south bank.

Student discount available with your college ID + an extra discount when you see both exhibitions.

FRANCIS ALYS

Alÿs’s work starts with a simple action, either by him or others, which is then documented in a range of media. Alÿs explores subjects such as modernising programmes in Latin America and border zones in areas of conflict, often asking about the relevance of poetic acts in politicised situations. He has used video projection and film but also spreads his ideas through postcards. Painting and drawing remain central to his work too.

EXPOSED

Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects.

at last……..

I have done something with that e3d idea and podcasts

not sure how well it works but as proof of concept and a way to display the work I am pleased

best on iphone/touch but ok on iTunes too – could be a nice way of hving a portfolio in your hand

let me know your thoughts

mark

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CGI-brows

in other words why not consider getting some of your work submitted to competitions like this,

or plan to collaborate on an external project over the summer to submit later.

YOU HAVE THE SKILLS

brick lane

I saw these paintings and thought it worth sharing, especially in regard to the visual studies module.

Yet another fascinating street artist working and adapting to the urban landscape.

ROA currently has a solo show at the PURE EVIL gallery in London.

Well worth a checking out in person!

Video blog review of ROA

there are lots of gorillaz references available online – here’s the ones I put up today in the lesson

deadline for ass 1 is thursday 25th march at 12.30am

2d or murdoc would be my recommendation

gorillaz references

I showed Perch to year 3 students a couple of weeks ago – it is a really cool bit of software

I’m just working on a personal site with it to really test it out but suffice to say it is REALLY clever

well via Twitter they have just announced a 20% discount with the the code MARCHHARE for (I assume) march only – this means £28 rather than £35 (+VAT) – I think it might be just the solution for lots of you

with a (little) bit of code you will be able to use it as a blog, a gallery, a website and more – it’s standards based, it’s from the UK, it has cool little animated birds, great video tutorials – what is there not to like?

go but it and use it for your PP module

if you haven’t seen it go have a look here and watch the video on the front page

http://grabaperch.com/

ps. check their forum – it is using bbPress, the forum counterpart to wordpress – you can integrate the two for single sign on as well

we saw the guy who made this – matt pyke from universal everything talk about this piece and others at Lovebytes
really cool – perhaps we can try this with some characters later on in the character module

I’ve seen some great examples – but you need to send them to me if you haven’t already

an exercise in video, capture and edit in final cut

done in the lesson today – nice!!!

the bvh files we looked at are in folder 148

and a quick tutorial on how to attach a mesh is in folder 001 – bvh.mov

enjoy

more modelling practice today – more human characters – when you are comfortable with low poly meshes, try it again but within a hyper nurbs – keep it low poly!!

before next week I need you to have completed a range of characters – human, the chicken/cow in folder 144, etc

you need to be comfortable blocking out models – lo res at this stage, they just need to be 99% four sided polygon and in some way flow over the surface – the polygons should follow the structure of the body in some sense

don’t worry if you get stuck and in a mess – these are meant to be quick – just save then start another one

practice practice practice

at this stage seeing how it went in the lesson today do not use a hyperNurbs at all – we will address this when the base polygons are right

have a go at the above characters, and the mr city men by eric lerner http://www.ericlerner.com/mrcitymen/mrcitymen.html

make sure you have lots to show next week

have fun

1 hour 40 down to 5minutes
superbad
the full videos are in folder 001

a new set of character box modelling video tutorials are now available in folder 001 > boxmodelling Iva

01 – setting up the reference images in c4d
02 – doodlepaint layer and modelling the head
03 – torso
04 – adjusting for symmetry object
05 – upper leg
06 – arm
07 – lower leg and foot
08 – breast

each movie is large – around 12 mins and 80Mb so there is around an hour and a half of tutorials there

if you are struggling make sure you use these and the cat modelling tutorials in the same folder